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← START EARLY

Form 990 for tax year 2023

Filed by START EARLY.

Totals

Total revenue
$134,930,918
Total expenses
$113,827,823
Contributions and grants received
$129,261,283
Grants paid
$36,018,053
Program services expenses (Part IX)
$92,862,493
Management and general expenses
$18,070,824
Fundraising expenses
$2,894,506
Program service expenses (Part III)
$92,862,493

Program services were 81.6% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

Listed in Part VII

  • Ms Diana Sands

    Board Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Ms Mary Hasten

    Board Vice Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Mr Suk Shah

    Board Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Ms Lula Ford

    Board Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Ms Billie Wright Adams

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Mr Curt R Bailey

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Ms Sheila Caestany

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Mr David Casper

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Ms Mawiyah Coates

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Ms Nancy Carrington Crown

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Ms Deborah Daro

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Ms Kelly King Dibble

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 1 related

  • Ms Vicki Escarra

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Ms Marilyn Fields

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Ms Marquia Fields

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Mr Bill Friend

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Mr Tom Gimbel

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Ms Keith Kiley Goldstein

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Mr Charles Matthews

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Mr Paul Metzger

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Mr Dan O'Keefe

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Ms Isabel Navarrete Polsky

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Mr Michael Rapelyea

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Mr Raul Raymundo

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Mr Richard Rothkopf

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Ms Diane Schanzenbach

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Mr John Schreiber

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Ms Catherine Siegel

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Ms Linda Smith

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Ms Laura Thonn

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Ms Anne Tuohy

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Mr Sam Yagan

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Ms Helen Zell

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Ms Donna Iwanski

    Chief Financial Officer

    Total calculated
    $319,096
    From this org
    $268,623
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $50,473
    Hours/week
    37.5

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $268,623
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $16,716
    Nontaxable benefits
    $33,757
    Filer's total
    $319,096

  • Ms Diana Rauner

    President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    37.5 + 1 related

  • Mr Michael Hoffman

    Chief Operating Officer

    Total calculated
    $406,736
    From this org
    $384,024
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $22,712
    Hours/week
    37.5

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $384,024
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $20,928
    Nontaxable benefits
    $1,784
    Filer's total
    $406,736

  • Ms Johanna Vetter

    Chief Marketing Officer

    Total calculated
    $277,679
    From this org
    $260,295
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $17,384
    Hours/week
    37.5

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $260,295
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $15,600
    Nontaxable benefits
    $1,784
    Filer's total
    $277,679

  • Ms Daphne Logan

    Senior Vice President until 8/23

    Total calculated
    $340,974
    From this org
    $307,761
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $33,213
    Hours/week
    37.5

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $207,761
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $100,000
    Deferred
    $9,280
    Nontaxable benefits
    $23,933
    Filer's total
    $340,974

  • Ms Sheetal Singh

    Executive Director, ELL

    Total calculated
    $247,651
    From this org
    $191,376
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $56,275
    Hours/week
    37.5

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $191,376
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $12,067
    Nontaxable benefits
    $44,208
    Filer's total
    $247,651

  • Ms Bridget Byville

    VP, Strategy & Impact

    Total calculated
    $243,297
    From this org
    $199,744
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $43,553
    Hours/week
    37.5

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $199,744
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $12,526
    Nontaxable benefits
    $31,027
    Filer's total
    $243,297

  • Mr Michael Owens

    VP, Information Technology

    Total calculated
    $220,228
    From this org
    $206,248
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $13,980
    Hours/week
    37.5

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $206,248
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $11,160
    Nontaxable benefits
    $2,820
    Filer's total
    $220,228

  • Ms Sarah Rittling

    Executive Director, FFYF

    Total calculated
    $352,182
    From this org
    $278,582
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $73,600
    Hours/week
    37.5 + 1 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $278,582
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $17,953
    Nontaxable benefits
    $55,647
    Filer's total
    $352,182

  • Ms Cynthia Jackson

    Executive Director, ELN

    Total calculated
    $301,001
    From this org
    $264,064
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $36,937
    Hours/week
    37.5

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $264,064
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $16,249
    Nontaxable benefits
    $20,688
    Filer's total
    $301,001

  • Ms Kristin Bernhard

    Chief Policy & Res Off. until 6/24

    Total calculated
    $292,398
    From this org
    $269,050
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $23,348
    Hours/week
    37.5

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $269,050
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $16,564
    Nontaxable benefits
    $6,784
    Filer's total
    $292,398

  • Ms Aisha Gayle Turner

    Chief Development Officer

    Total calculated
    $366,474
    From this org
    $307,328
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $59,146
    Hours/week
    37.5

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $307,328
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $14,385
    Nontaxable benefits
    $44,761
    Filer's total
    $366,474

  • Mr Ashon McKenzie

    Executive Dir, Illinois until 3/24

    Total calculated
    $349,739
    From this org
    $281,032
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $68,707
    Hours/week
    37.5

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $281,032
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $15,922
    Nontaxable benefits
    $52,785
    Filer's total
    $349,739

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us.

Schedule J

Answered yes

  • 3 · Compensation committee
  • 3 · Independent compensation consultant
  • 3 · Form 990 of other organizations
  • 3 · Compensation survey or study
  • 3 · Approval by the board or compensation committee
  • 4a · Severance or change-of-control payment

Answered no

  • 4b · Supplemental nonqualified retirement plan
  • 4c · Equity-based compensation arrangement
  • 5a · Pay contingent on this organization's revenues
  • 5b · Pay contingent on a related organization's revenues
  • 6a · Pay contingent on this organization's net earnings
  • 6b · Pay contingent on a related organization's net earnings
  • 7 · Other non-fixed payments
  • 8 · Paid under the initial-contract exception

The filer's explanations (Part III)

Part I, Line 4a
The following individual received a severance payment during 2023: - Daphne Logan $100,000

Part I's answers as filed. A line not listed was left unanswered; on lines 1a and 3 that means the box was not checked.

Grants on this return

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Related organizations on this return

Schedule R Part II: tax-exempt organizations related to the filer by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

  • First Five Action Fund

    501(c)(4) · Advocate for high-quality early childhood education · DC · controlled entity

    Directly controlled by Start Early

Provenance

Return type
form_990
Tax year
2023
Filed
17 March 2025
IRS schema version
2023v6.0
Source object
202520859349301332

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